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The management of one of Emporia’s newest apartment complexes is hoping to provide younger special-needs women the opportunity to reclaim their independence in a comfortable and secure environment. Located at 1005 Constitution St., “Charis Place” has been under constant renovation since founders Matthew and Brenda Shepherd began their mission of transforming the former Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity house into a residential community in May. Currently, the complex hosts three tenants with more expected soon thanks to the recent furnishing of two additional rooms. “Charis is...

Tim Carpenter, Kansas Reflector TOPEKA — The privatized system in Kansas for handling child support payments to 140,000 children suffers from Byzantine complexity perplexing to employees and the public, a laissez-faire approach to enforcement of support orders, and a computer network that should be a candidate for the scrap heap but isn’t because of high replacement costs. The child support program overseen by the Kansas Department for Children and Families and operated by a collection of private contractors hired by the state was placed under the microscope of Midwest Evaluation and Rese...